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| runtime = 79 minutes | runtime = 79 minutes
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'''''Les Maîtres du temps''''' (lit. ''The Masters of Time'', a.k.a. ''Time Masters'', ''Az idő urai'' in ]) is a 1982 ]-] ] ] feature film directed by ] and ] by ]. It is based on the 1958 science fiction novel ''L'Orphelin de Perdide'' (''The Orphan of Perdide'') by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://palais.wikidot.com/les-maitres-du-temps|title=''Les Maîtres du temps''|last=Scott|first=Jordan|date=7 June 2008|work=Le Palais des dessins animés|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref> '''''Les Maîtres du temps''''' ({{lit.}} ''The Masters of Time'', {{a.k.a.}} ''Time Masters''; ''Herrscher der Zeit'' in ]; ''Az idő urai'' in ]) is a 1982 ] ] ] film directed by ] and ] by ]. It is based on the 1958 science fiction novel '']'' (''The Orphan of Perdide'') by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://palais.wikidot.com/les-maitres-du-temps|title=''Les Maîtres du temps''|last=Scott|first=Jordan|date=7 June 2008|work=Le Palais des dessins animés|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref>


The film centres around a boy, Piel, who is stranded on Perdide, a desert planet where giant killer hornets live. He awaits rescue by the space pilot Jaffar, the exiled prince Matton, his sister Belle and Jaffar's old friend Silbad who are trying to reach Perdide and save Piel before it is too late. The film centres on a boy, Piel, who is stranded on Perdide, a desert planet where giant killer hornets live. He awaits rescue by the space pilot Jaffar, the exiled prince Matton, his sister Belle and Jaffar's old friend Silbad who are trying to reach Perdide and save Piel before it is too late.


== Plot == == Plot ==
⚫ A man named Claude drives a vehicle across the planet Perdide. He sends a message to his friend Jaffar, telling him that his wife Annie was killed by indigenous monster hornets. After a crash wrecks his vehicle and he cannot extricate himself, Claude lets his son Piel down from the wreckage and hands him an interstellar transceiver, telling him that it is named "Mike" and will talk to him, and to do whatever Mike tells him to do. After Claude sends Piel to the Dolongs, a nearby forest which repulses the hornets, the vehicle explodes.
''Note that this section refers to the English-language dub of '''Les Maîtres du temps''', and certain details may differ from the original.''


On his spaceship, Jaffar receives Claude's last message. Before heading for Perdide, he decides to seek out his friend Silbad, who has experience in living on Perdide. Jaffar's passengers, Prince Matton and his sister, Princess Belle, have been deposed from their planet; they bring with them a treasure the Prince took along to fund his restoration. Matton hates being diverted.
⚫ A man named Claude is driving a six-wheeled, insect-like vehicle over the desert surface of Perdide very fast. He attempts to communicate with Jaffar, saying that "they attacked" and that "Annie is dead." After a crash that wrecks his vehicle, he lets his son Piel down from the wreckage; he cannot extricate himself. Piel is too young to comprehend the red and white, ] interstellar transceiver that Claude hands him. So Claude tells him that it is named "Mike" and will talk to him, and to do whatever Mike tells him to do, but first to run to a coral-like forest and stay within it. After Piel has reached the forest, the crashed vehicle explodes.


⚫ Jaffar, Silbad, Matton and Belle begin communicating with Piel to give him advice. On Silbad's planet, they witness the ] of an organism into multiple empathic, sentient homunculi, two of whom, Yula and Jad, stow away on Jaffar's spacecraft seeking adventure. Unbeknownst to everyone, Yula and Jad play with and then dispose of the treasure via the airlock. Matton nearly convinces Piel to drown himself in a lake, but is discovered by Belle. She stuns Matton and talks Piel to safety.
Jaffar is piloting a spacecraft, the ''Double Triangle 22''. He plans to reach Perdide by being pulled along by the gravitational field of the Blue Comet. But he's several planetary systems away, and does not go directly to Perdide or the Blue Comet. Instead he heads for a planet where his friend Silbad resides, as Silbad has experience of living on Perdide. Jaffar's passengers, Prince Matton and his sister, Princess Belle, have been deposed from their planet; they bring with them a treasure the Prince took along to fund his restoration. Matton is not at all happy about being diverted and makes no attempt to hide his displeasure; throughout he is depicted as a lazy, arrogant and deceitful individual.


⚫ Jaffar plans to use the gravitational pull of the Blue Comet to reach Perdide. In order to rendezvous with it, Jaffar pilots his craft to the planet Gamma 10. Matton escapes in a shuttlecraft to the surface of Gamma 10, which is inhabited by identical angels. They capture both Matton and Jaffar, who followed in a space lifeboat, and intend to throw them into the amorphous being which controls the planet. Although they cannot rescue Jaffar, Yula and Jad forewarn him: As they contact the being, its victims get dominated by it, lose all sense of individuality and become angels. They instruct Jaffar and Matton to resist being assimilated by exuding all the hate and contempt they can muster. Matton leaps into the being and sacrifices himself, destroying the creature and causing the angels to revert to their original forms.
⚫ Each contacts Piel with the transceiver; when they meet Silbad, he sings Piel a song as well, as does the Princess. Whilst on Silbad's planet, they witness the ] of a water-lily like organism into dozens of empathic, sentient, primary coloured homunculi, two of whom, named Yula and Jad, stow away on Jaffar's spacecraft seeking adventure. Unknown to the Prince, Yula and Jad play with and then dispose of the treasure via the airlock.


⚫ Rescued by Yula and Jad, the former captives are taken onboard Jaffar's ship. Meanwhile, Piel befriends a local creature, a hyponiterix, which accompanies him. A patrol cruiser of the Interplanetary Reform catches up with Jaffar's ship, pursuing the royals and the treasure Matton stole. Jaffar considers that the rescued spacefarers from Gamma 10 should hijack the Reform cruiser and take it for themselves. During the discussion of this plan, one of the rescued from Gamma 10, Onyx the Digeed of Gnaz, is revealed to be able to change his shape to resemble any object. Onyx will impersonate the missing treasure, allowing the escapees to access the Reformist ship.
When Matton speaks with Piel, he nearly convinces the trusting boy to drown himself in a lake, but is discovered by Belle, who stuns him with a pistol weapon and talks Piel to safety.


Jaffar's vessel is boarded, and as he presents the "captured" pirates and the fake treasure to the Reform commander, no one can converse with Piel, who begins to wander without supervision. Jaffar's crew later attempt to contact Piel, who has lost his transceiver and the hyponiterix inside a cave filled with predatory tentacles. Despondent, Piel wanders back to the lakeside, which takes him out of the forest, and is attacked by the hornets which killed his parents. Jaffar's ship closes on her destination, but the planet is being transported through time by a race of aliens known as the Masters of Time. Perdide and everything on it, including Piel, is sent back 60 years through time.
⚫ In order to rendezvous with the Blue Comet, Jaffar pilots his craft to the planet Gamma 10. Prince Matton escapes in a shuttlecraft to the surface of Gamma 10, which is inhabited by faceless, identical white male angels. They capture both Matton and Jaffar, who followed in a space lifeboat. The men will be thrown into the living, thinking amorphous being which controls the planet. Although they are unable to rescue Jaffar, Yula and Jad are able to forewarn him of the fate intended for the captives: they are to become one with the controlling being, dominated entirely by it, losing all sense of individuality in the process and becoming one of the angel-beings. They instruct Jaffar to resist being assimilated with all the hate and contempt he can muster. When Jaffar tells the Prince to do so as well, Matton leaps into the being and does so, not only destroying it and the building but causing the skin and wings of all the angels to peel away to reveal that they were originally scruffy spacemen reminiscent of pirates. Rescued from the surface of Gamma 10 by Yula and Jad, the freed captives are taken to the ''Double Triangle 22'', where they are given food and drink, and the presence of their minds cause comical problems for Yula and Jad.


The effect of time travel renders the unprotected crew of Jaffar's ship unconscious. They awake in a space-station, where they have been treated, but Silbad is dying. Yula and Jad telepathically discover that Silbad is actually a now-elderly Piel. At the time Perdide was displaced, Piel was nearly killed by the hornets before a passing spacefarer, who was investigating this recently appearing planet, came to his rescue. However, due to his trauma, Piel lost his childhood memories. Shortly after this revelation, Silbad dies. His funeral is attended by a Master of Time.
⚫ Thereby Jaffar acquires a crew of misfits on the journey to Perdide. Soon afterwards, a patrol cruiser of the Interplanetary Reform catches up with the ''Double Triangle 22'', pursuing the fleeing royals and the treasure the now-deceased Prince stole. Jaffar considers that the 'pirates' from Gamma 10 should be able to hijack the Reform cruiser and take it for themselves. During the discussion of this plan, one of rescued beings from Gamma 10, Onyx the Digeed of Gnaz, is revealed to be able to change his shape to resemble any other object. Onyx will impersonate the missing treasure, allowing the escapees to access the Reformist ship.


== Differences from the novel ==
Jaffar's vessel is boarded by massive numbers of troops, and as he presents his "captured" pirates and the "treasure" to the commander of the other vessel, none of the ''Double Triangle 22'''s crew is able to converse with Piel, who begins to wander without supervision, encountering amiable native lifeforms. Aboard Jaffar's ship there is congratulation as the docking tube between the two vessels retracts, and they speculate on how long it will take the pirates to take control of the military vessel. The military have overlooked the presence of Belle aboard ship, and in fact only seem interested in the treasure itself, rather than the fugitives.
⚫ The motion picture story is based on the novel '']'' (1958) by the French writer ].


⚫ In the original novel, the character of Piel was also named Claude, like his father. Laloux changed this to distinguish father and son.<ref>Craig Keller, , 2007. From his introduction to the booklet accompanying the Masters of Cinema Series DVD.</ref>
Realising they have lost contact with Piel, the crew attempt to contact him, but this is now impossible: traveling with his native companion, Piel has lost his transceiver (and his companion) inside a cave filled with predatory hanging tentacles. He wanders, despondent, back to the lakeside, which takes him out of the forest his father had instructed him to stay within.


==Cast==
The ''Double Triangle 22'' closes on her destination, but the planet is being transported through time by a bizarre race of aliens known only as the Masters of Time. Perdide and everything on it, including Piel, is sent back 60 years through time. The effect of time travel means that aboard the approaching ''Double Triangle 22'', the starfield appears to go into flux, and the unprotected crew are knocked unconscious. They awake in a vast space-station, two halves of a bisected sphere the size of a planet, surrounded by a constantly rotating cube described by vast luminous edges. The crew have been treated for exposure to the time-travel area, but Silbad is dying. Yula and Jad, telepathically, reveal how Piel was attacked again by the creatures which killed his mother, losing part of his skull before a passing spacefarer came to his rescue. Silbad, when first describing Perdide to Jaffar and Belle, had revealed a metal plate on his head to repair the damage of this attack, but never demonstrated explicit knowledge of Piel, his parents' death, or time travel. It is now obvious to Jaffar and Belle that Silbad and Piel are one and the same person at different points in their life, which ends shortly thereafter as the unconscious old man dies. He is "buried" in space, and his funeral is observed by one of the Masters of Time; a tall luminous-green biped with a drooping, beak-like snout.
===Original===
*Jaffar - Jean Valmont
*Silbad - Michel Elias
*Piel - Frédéric Legros
*Matton - Yves-Marie
*Belle - Monique Thierry
*Claude - ]
*Jad - Patrick Baujin
*Yula - Pierre Tourneur
*Xul - ]
*Général - Yves Brainville
*Igor - Michel Barbey

===English===
*]


== Production == == Production ==
The ] (who were co-producers) aired an ] dubbed version in 1987 and 1991 called '''Time Masters''', featuring, amongst others, the voice of ], famous for being the narrator of '']''. The ] (who were co-producers) aired an ] dubbed version in 1987 and 1991 called '''''Time Masters''''', featuring, amongst others, the voice of ].


⚫ Directed by ], the film was produced largely at the ] in ]. The visual design was based on the art of Mœbius, otherwise known as ].{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
⚫ Several versions have been released on DVD:

⚫ *A French edition (ASIN: B00017O6KM, 2 disc collectors edition) which was released in 2004 and has no English subtitles.
== Home media ==
⚫ *The out of print single disc edition released in the USA in 2000 (ASIN: B00004S8A2) is in French with English subtitles.
⚫ Several versions have been released on ]:
⚫ *A French edition (ASIN: B00017O6KM, two-disc collectors edition) which was released in 2004 and has no English subtitles.
*A German edition (ASIN: B004C5L4X6, single-disc edition) released on 11 November 2010 and another German edition (ASIN: B001I9ZML4, single-disc edition) released on 3 November 2008.
⚫ *The out-of-print single-disc edition released in the US in 2000 (ASIN: B00004S8A2) is in French with English subtitles.
*UK distributor Eureka! released a restored, wide-screen and English-subtitled version of the film as part of its ] series on 22 October 2007. *UK distributor Eureka! released a restored, wide-screen and English-subtitled version of the film as part of its ] series on 22 October 2007.

⚫ Directed by ], the film was produced largely at the ] studios in ]. The visual design was based on the art of ], otherwise known as Jean Giraud.

⚫ The motion picture story is based on the novel '']'' (1958) by the French writer ].

⚫ In the original novel, the character of Piel was also named Claude, like his father. Laloux changed this to distinguish father and son.<ref>Craig Keller, , 2007. From his introduction to the booklet accompanying the Masters of Cinema Series DVD</ref>


== See also == == See also ==
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== References == == References ==
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== External links == == External links ==
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1982 French animated film

Les Maîtres du temps
Directed byRené LalouxTibor Hernádi (technical director)
Written byMœbiusRené LalouxJean-Patrick ManchetteStefan Wul
Based onL'Orphelin de Perdide
by Stefan Wul
Produced byMiklós Salusinszky
StarringJean ValmontMichel EliasFrédéric LegrosYves-Marie MaurinMonique ThierrySady Rebbot
CinematographyZoltán BacsóAndrás KlauszMihály KovácsÁrpád Lossonczy
Edited byDominique Boischot
Music byJean-Pierre BourtayrePierre TardyChristian Zanesi
Production
company		TélécipTF1 Films ProductionWestdeutscher RundfunkSüdwestfunkRadio-Télévision Suisse RomandeBritish Broadcasting CorporationPannónia FilmstúdióHungarofilm
Distributed byCompagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique
Release date
  • 24 March 1982 (1982-03-24) (France)
Running time79 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • West Germany
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
  • Hungary
LanguageFrench
Box office$27,241

Les Maîtres du temps (lit. The Masters of Time, a.k.a. Time Masters; Herrscher der Zeit in German; Az idő urai in Hungarian) is a 1982 independent animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux and designed by Mœbius. It is based on the 1958 science fiction novel L'Orphelin de Perdide (The Orphan of Perdide) by Stefan Wul.

The film centres on a boy, Piel, who is stranded on Perdide, a desert planet where giant killer hornets live. He awaits rescue by the space pilot Jaffar, the exiled prince Matton, his sister Belle and Jaffar's old friend Silbad who are trying to reach Perdide and save Piel before it is too late.

Plot

A man named Claude drives a vehicle across the planet Perdide. He sends a message to his friend Jaffar, telling him that his wife Annie was killed by indigenous monster hornets. After a crash wrecks his vehicle and he cannot extricate himself, Claude lets his son Piel down from the wreckage and hands him an interstellar transceiver, telling him that it is named "Mike" and will talk to him, and to do whatever Mike tells him to do. After Claude sends Piel to the Dolongs, a nearby forest which repulses the hornets, the vehicle explodes.

On his spaceship, Jaffar receives Claude's last message. Before heading for Perdide, he decides to seek out his friend Silbad, who has experience in living on Perdide. Jaffar's passengers, Prince Matton and his sister, Princess Belle, have been deposed from their planet; they bring with them a treasure the Prince took along to fund his restoration. Matton hates being diverted.

Jaffar, Silbad, Matton and Belle begin communicating with Piel to give him advice. On Silbad's planet, they witness the metamorphosis of an organism into multiple empathic, sentient homunculi, two of whom, Yula and Jad, stow away on Jaffar's spacecraft seeking adventure. Unbeknownst to everyone, Yula and Jad play with and then dispose of the treasure via the airlock. Matton nearly convinces Piel to drown himself in a lake, but is discovered by Belle. She stuns Matton and talks Piel to safety.

Jaffar plans to use the gravitational pull of the Blue Comet to reach Perdide. In order to rendezvous with it, Jaffar pilots his craft to the planet Gamma 10. Matton escapes in a shuttlecraft to the surface of Gamma 10, which is inhabited by identical angels. They capture both Matton and Jaffar, who followed in a space lifeboat, and intend to throw them into the amorphous being which controls the planet. Although they cannot rescue Jaffar, Yula and Jad forewarn him: As they contact the being, its victims get dominated by it, lose all sense of individuality and become angels. They instruct Jaffar and Matton to resist being assimilated by exuding all the hate and contempt they can muster. Matton leaps into the being and sacrifices himself, destroying the creature and causing the angels to revert to their original forms.

Rescued by Yula and Jad, the former captives are taken onboard Jaffar's ship. Meanwhile, Piel befriends a local creature, a hyponiterix, which accompanies him. A patrol cruiser of the Interplanetary Reform catches up with Jaffar's ship, pursuing the royals and the treasure Matton stole. Jaffar considers that the rescued spacefarers from Gamma 10 should hijack the Reform cruiser and take it for themselves. During the discussion of this plan, one of the rescued from Gamma 10, Onyx the Digeed of Gnaz, is revealed to be able to change his shape to resemble any object. Onyx will impersonate the missing treasure, allowing the escapees to access the Reformist ship.

Jaffar's vessel is boarded, and as he presents the "captured" pirates and the fake treasure to the Reform commander, no one can converse with Piel, who begins to wander without supervision. Jaffar's crew later attempt to contact Piel, who has lost his transceiver and the hyponiterix inside a cave filled with predatory tentacles. Despondent, Piel wanders back to the lakeside, which takes him out of the forest, and is attacked by the hornets which killed his parents. Jaffar's ship closes on her destination, but the planet is being transported through time by a race of aliens known as the Masters of Time. Perdide and everything on it, including Piel, is sent back 60 years through time.

The effect of time travel renders the unprotected crew of Jaffar's ship unconscious. They awake in a space-station, where they have been treated, but Silbad is dying. Yula and Jad telepathically discover that Silbad is actually a now-elderly Piel. At the time Perdide was displaced, Piel was nearly killed by the hornets before a passing spacefarer, who was investigating this recently appearing planet, came to his rescue. However, due to his trauma, Piel lost his childhood memories. Shortly after this revelation, Silbad dies. His funeral is attended by a Master of Time.

Differences from the novel

The motion picture story is based on the novel L'Orphelin de Perdide (1958) by the French writer Stefan Wul.

In the original novel, the character of Piel was also named Claude, like his father. Laloux changed this to distinguish father and son.

Cast

Original

  • Jaffar - Jean Valmont
  • Silbad - Michel Elias
  • Piel - Frédéric Legros
  • Matton - Yves-Marie
  • Belle - Monique Thierry
  • Claude - Sady Rebbot
  • Jad - Patrick Baujin
  • Yula - Pierre Tourneur
  • Xul - Alain Cuny
  • Général - Yves Brainville
  • Igor - Michel Barbey

English

Production

The BBC (who were co-producers) aired an English-language dubbed version in 1987 and 1991 called Time Masters, featuring, amongst others, the voice of Ray Brooks.

Directed by René Laloux, the film was produced largely at the Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary. The visual design was based on the art of Mœbius, otherwise known as Jean Giraud.

Home media

Several versions have been released on DVD:

  • A French edition (ASIN: B00017O6KM, two-disc collectors edition) which was released in 2004 and has no English subtitles.
  • A German edition (ASIN: B004C5L4X6, single-disc edition) released on 11 November 2010 and another German edition (ASIN: B001I9ZML4, single-disc edition) released on 3 November 2008.
  • The out-of-print single-disc edition released in the US in 2000 (ASIN: B00004S8A2) is in French with English subtitles.
  • UK distributor Eureka! released a restored, wide-screen and English-subtitled version of the film as part of its Masters of Cinema series on 22 October 2007.

See also

References

  1. "Time Masters". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  2. Scott, Jordan (7 June 2008). "Les Maîtres du temps". Le Palais des dessins animés. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  3. Craig Keller, Cinemasparagus, 2007. From his introduction to the booklet accompanying the Masters of Cinema Series DVD.

External links

Films directed by René Laloux
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